In re Dulberg

This is an appeal from the decision of the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office affirming the rejection by the primary examiner of claims 1 and 2 of appellant’s application No. 550,974 for a patent on a holder for “soft sticks such as lipsticks.”

Claim 1, which is representative of the appealed claims, is as follows:

1. A holder for soft sticks comprising: an elongated holder body having an internal opening extending longitudinally therethrough, a carrier having a longitudinally extending peripheral wall for frictionally engaging one end of a soft stick and having a laterally…